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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1904)
0'8 0tlM 1 1 1 III II 1 8 II III -tttft I I 1 illHt Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. frfr 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 II 111114 4 1 1 141 1 1 1 I I I t I I J. Unfitted for Citieathip. 1 I'-ago as ipUt-antH for naturalization papers. I Neither of them could speak Knsiish except cijr unruij, luougQ one claimed a residence of fifteen year In this country. Neither of them knew how the State anil Federal Gov- erurneiitii are organize. or how they are con ducted. Tbey could not tell how Presidents are chosen nor what the dutle of Cmigrem are. They cmld not even give the name of the President now In office. Judge M. V. Thompson, of Danville, who Is Hitting In the Circuit Court of Cook County, properly denied their Application for naturalization paper. His decision and liln reasons upon which It was based merit the consideration of all Judges who may t.e calleil upon to grant the privi lege of citizenship to alien unfitted for It. 'This nation of ours." declared Judge Thompson, "has got pant the point where we can safely admit all comer to citizenship. Do you think we can allow you -to come over here and without any preparation give you all the power and privi lege we have a citizen; I have lived here alway and have studied our national need. You know nothing of them. Vet you ;ik me to let you have all the powers and right I and other hate." The danger of admitting to full citizenship men who have no knowledge of American Institutions and no con ception of the reMiiiNlbllftiea which citizenship imposes In patent. The f.ict that application for naturalization are now frequent)) made by alien wholly destitute of these juallfl-ail,jii imlicate the dangerous lengths to which the practice already ha been carried. The time lias come to adopt the principle that, no matter how freely alien may he welcomed to till country, they shall not he per mitted to exercise the suffrage until a long residence and a full understanding of American Institution have made them fit for citizenship. The sooner the miturnllxatlnn law are changed to conform to flu principle the hotter It will lie for the nation. Chicago Dally New. ounq Men and the Church. 1 DITiHt BK is after the preachers again. 1t I Nine year ago. say Mr. liok. In the Outlook, r I'"' iote an article declaring thnt the lack of JJUhJJ vlbil preaching was the cause fur the absence f 5 "f young men from the city churches. To use XS1 I a bill phrase, he was "batted all over the lot" by the preachers for saying so. In returning to Uy lists, the editor who ha been gath ering statistic all the time. says the percentage of attend auce of young men is X per cent less than It was nine year ago. It wy only ;i't per cent tit that time. What' the trouble? lie asks. l ive year ago the ministers said It was the bicycle, l-'or the at three years they have said "golf." A few say Sunday paper. The bicycle has dis appeared from Sunday amusements. The Sunday new papers are more numerous ami larger. That leave only golf, iwy a Bok. Hut he take up thirty one churches In different cities where Sunday golf la prohibited and allow that out of a possible 1,010 young men only 427 attend church. So he returns to the old attack. He has Interviewed hundred of young men and the majority Hay: "Nothing to go for," "Doii'l get enough out of the sermon." "It's all word, words, word -no vital message." Then he tells liow the churchc of Giinsaiilu of Chicago nnd Italnsford find Iorlmer of New York where the big note of spiritual ity I sounded -lire crowded wilh young men. True, he quotes many young men who say they are bx tired when Sunday come and allows for hard conditions and the money madness of the times, but he stick pretty close to Ida text: Lack of vital sermon. Des Moines News. British and Japanese Interests. paaak r ha been lightly assumed that British Inter .lests and Japanese Interest are convertible I M. l,'rll", Ve m,ve our l0111'' whether this the tJory ha received adequate proof. For several WfWl generation dread of Russia ha been a deep. XaVf2cuted ''Icmcut In the formation of British opinion. It lias determined our policy both in tbe Near East and upon the Northwest frontier of India. Put Lord Salisbury one of those who considered that this prejudice led us to put our money on the wrong horse, and the effect of that error In the Near Kast have been appalling. Let us suppose, however, thut Russia receives Ler drubbing. What then? Are we serious in imagining that Japan is lighting the battle of the Anglo-Saxon? it m. there awaits us a rude surprise. The goal of Japanese MatetunanKhlp Is the liberation of Asia from European control, and Asia Include India. When we back Japun we virtually Indorse the cry, "Asia for the Asiatics,'' which Is quite the reverse of tbe watchword, "An Open Door for Great Britain." Itussian statesmen realize what an awakening of the yellow races means for humanity as a whole. We approve that awakening, but must also realize us consequences, j ue resurrection or uie annate e-asi ieo to the Invasion of Spain by the Moors and to battles lie-1 tween Cross and Crescent at the gates of Vienna itself. Christendom was there confronted by Oriental Invad ra, w ho possessed arms equal to her own. The same phenom enon is developing at the Far Kast. Neither China nor Jupan has bowed before the Ideals upon which our religion is based. But Japan has adopted, and China Is lu process of adopting, the weapons of modern warfare, and when the yellow races have acquired our methods of destruction. It Is possible that we may learn too late how wise it would have been to allow Hussia to remain as a counterpoise. London Iially News. ijfvscience vgsJflvention Don't Stop; Keep On. I1K head of a Dimming endue eomnanv was I recently asked whether school trained men or I Ishop trained men are better equipped for work Sk Bin tilu fuetiirv Ma u n B u-i.ri.H - "Thi! practical man Is likely to know more than the technical school man alxut actual shop work, but he Is also likely to stop knowing when he should go on know ing." Bight here Is the point where the young man of broad school education excels the young manof equal natural abil ity but only shop education. lie goes on knowing. The Iniy apprenticed to a skilled trade will learn to do his particular work more deftly than the boy who puis In the equivalent year In school. But the properly schooled boy, If he has learmsl less how to do, has learned better how to learn to do. And what Is wanted In every Industry and In every pro fession Is not so much men who can do well the particular task of the day a men who can readily pass on to kuiihi other anil more dllllciilt tasks men who can keep on learn ing while they work, 'Hie mind, like the muscles, ceases to grow If It be no exercised. The ordinary boy, set early at a trade, may learn that, but In learning It he Is In danger of closing his mind, for lack of all round exercise, to learning anything else, And the subdivision of labor In modern Industry Inift ihcreasi-d this danger. From that danger the proporlj,' schooled boy is delivered. The soil of his mind Is so broken up that It cannot become incrusted against new Ideas. Ibi keeps on learning while he works. That Is what broad education does, and that Is why the protest of certain exceptional and successful men against broad education beat vainly against the daily ob servation of common sense Chicago Inter Ocean. A The Crae for Money. T the bottom of all the too prevalent corrup tion, commercial and pollthvil. Is the prevailing idea that success consists In the gaining of money. Joseph It. Burton, of Kanaua. the Ilrst t'nlted States Senator to be convicted of crime while In otlice. testified that he used his official Influence In consideration of a salary of $."oo a month from the Itlulto Grain and Securities Companies ot St. Ixiuls, because he needed the money. Those convicted of fraud In the I'ostofllce Department at Washington, per petratid the fraud In order to make money. Almost every act of corruption In office Is done to get money; and the money that Is paid to Induce official corruption Is paid to obtain wrongful opportunities to make more money. All the dishonest burgnlng between business men and corpora tions are merely attempts to make money. People who have no need of more money keep on trying to make money, because that Is their only Ideal of success. Those who have more money than they can count or use In any way, try to add to It because they are lured on by the Idea which has been burned Into their minds that making money la suc cess and nothing else Is success. Corruption thrives on this false Ideal, and will cease only when this false Idol la thrown down from the high pedestal on which It stand before the minds of the American people. Boston Watchman. Natural causes sometimes bring (bout a audden lowering of the heads tf lofty inouutamg, but perhaps there s no record of the operations of man aviug achieved such a feat except In iie case of the vast rock -slide at Tur :le Mountain, lu the province of Al berta, Canada, on April Lit, l'J03. The Jiiniug town of Frank was overwhelm ?d, and tbe height of the mountain was jedui-ed as much as 1,000 feet. The 'ail resulted from the honeycombing uy miners of a 10-foot seaui of coal penetrating the base of the mountain. From recent photographs, the cra 'ers and craterlets of the moon are es timated to number more than two hun ired thousand, hut less than a million. White patches In some craters and the bright lines radiating lu some cases hundreds of miles are thought by Pro fessor Pickering to be due to snow, 8nd the less conspicuous lunar canals, which gradually appear. Increase and fade away In the lunar day, are at :ributed by the same authority to vege tation. A thin atmosphere of t-arlsinic add and water vaior may feed the !!aut. H. W. Conn, the bacteriologist of Ktorrs. Conn., niys that while milk at ) degrees Fahrenheit may keep not onger than forty-eight hours, at N) de crees Fahrenheit it may not curdle for two weeks. At HO degrees the ordi nary milk organisms Increase very ".lowly; but on the other hand, the putrefaction bacteria continue to de velop rapidly, ami while they may not Hour the mlik, nevertheless tbey make it unwholesome. For this reason Mr. Conn says that milk which has been iept sweet by a low temperature should be viewed with suspicion. The demands of automobile manu facturers for a metal able to sustain extraordinary pulling and twisting strains have led to the Invention lu I 'm nee of a new alloy, which Is called i'ornietal." It contains, in addition to Hie usual constituents of bronze and bias, a mixture of other metallic ele ments, which contribute great power of mechanical resistance. It Is also ,iid to be unalterable by the effects of exposure to the air, and it resists the Ittack of weak acids. It can be drawn (n bars or rolled and forged. Nuts and screws made of it are unoxidiz- ble. I The fact that compression or bend ing causes a substance to emit N-rays lias suggested to M. D. Icpinay that vibration producing sound should have the same effect as the sounding body undergoes slight but rapidly re peated strains. Experiments with a liming fork, a bronze bell, a large steel cylinder and a siren proved this to bo true, and the phosphorescent screen showed that the air also produces ns well as transmits the rays. Another Investigator, M. Meyer, has discovered a similar radiation In vegetable tissue, the green parts of the plant giving the most intense effect. The ettier Is the supposed medium, filling all space and Interpenetrating ail bodies, by which the waves of light oml other forms of radiant energy nre transmitted. Many theories of the na ture of the ether have been proposed. Tbe latest conies from the famous chemist, Mendeleef, who thinks the ether may lie a chemical element, so light that the velocity of its molecular vibrations is sufficient to render it In dependent of gravitation. If Its ato mic weight Is supposed to be one-mil- lioneth of that of hydrogen, It Is be lieved it could escape the attraction of the largest bodies In the universe. Mendeleef proposes for it the name tiewtonliim. BRITISH SPEAKER'S POSITION. jf I'rraoimuc- of If lull Ottiilal IMitiiHjr and Smiul Consideration. It I doubtless becuuse tile poitiotl Speaker Is so onerous that the re wards attached to It are great. He I originally a tnemUr of parliament. It It the rest, and Is selected by (lie leader ot the house, who I not necessarily the prime minister, from among hi wu followers for bis perwnal charac ter and dignity and hi knowledge of parliamentary procedure. Ho Is usiml ly elected timinlmous'y hj vote of the house, and from that moment tie ceases to be a party mini, and his con Mltueiicy Is dlvidil In It fe.-liigs I o tweoti the tmlior of returning the Speaker and the disadvantage of I eln, for all practical purposes, unrepresent ed In parliament. The SHHker of the House of Com mons Is a personage enjoying the greatest (.tibial dignity and 'i"l foil slderatlon. lie Is the llrst commoner lu the realm; hi Invitation to dinner lire almost equivalent to a royal i-om-mand; court die-. Is worn by moml.ers who dine with hi in of!k'lai;y. In tin1 house be I treated with extreme d fcr ern e, and he receives salary of i.'.'too and the tie of a magnificent house, which forms part of the palace of Westminster. 1I Mains otlice though the M.btlc of the ministry may cliatme. through successive administration uu til his hesilth falls or he oVenis bliii self to have earned retirement. Then the sovereign bestows a ivrage upm Mm, and the country a tmmlnVent pen sion. The House of Commons hn lieen singularly fortunate In securing for Kickers men of great dignify, unfall liig Judgment, and unquetion 'd Impar tiality, and never more so than at pres ent in the person of the Hlht Hon. William Court Oully, member for JAPANESE ARTILLERYMEN AT PRACTICE. European and American military experts who have witnessed artillery nmneiivers lu the Japanese army have been loud In their praises of the rapid ity and precision with which the little brow n gunners handle themselves. In modern warfare the tendency Is to fight at longer range than formerly, so that the artillery Is constantly becoming a more Important arm of the service. One diftieulty with securing good gunner among the Jnps Is said to be the Kior eyesight that I a national characteristic. This obstacle has been over come In a measure by choosing for artillerymen only those with the keenest vlulon. The Japanese fleldplece I the Arlsaka twelve pounder. Invented by (icneral Arlsaka, the master of ordnance. Leamington, a Liberal before he wa raised alsive all party tics. It Is a splendid position, and though Its In tcllectnal demands nre unceasing nnd It merely physical demands exhaust ing. It Is splendidly n warded. The position Is as exhausting us It Is distinguished. During a large part of the scwdnii the Speaker must be In the ehnlr from 2 p. m. till after mid night, except (lining the dinner hour, from half past seven to nine; and even when the house Is In committee, and the chairman of committee Is presid ing, he must lie In ouiclal dress In hi house, which communicate directly with the lobby behind his chair, ready to ippesr at a moment's notice if sum- motioil. lie must, of course, know ev ery member by sight and he able to re call his name Instantly, It Is astound ing sometimes when from a back bench there rises some member w ho Is utterly unknown by sight to his fellow members, who seldom attemls nud hardly ever speaks, and has nothing whatever distinctive In his manner or appearance, to hear the Speaker say "Mr. Blank," as readily as If he wero accustomed lo address him every day Century. Ignorance is not a crime. There aro men In office to-day who can't tell yon the name of the champion prlzo fighter. RUSSIA'S CANAL SCHEME. wisdom of constructing the Manctes- i ter ship canal has been vindicated . many fold. Increased and enlarged canal facilities across Scotland are planned, and France Is seriously con sidering plans for a ship canal from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Bis cay. The neglect Into which canals fell for a time with the development of railroads is now seen to have been a mistake; for all the land transurtation In the world cannot do away with but only Increase ocean traffic, and the lat-! ter demand the shortest and easiest ! water passage from one sea to another, j Suez and Panama will always be the greatest two canals In the world, but there are and there will be others of great Importance, both national and International, and of these this Bus sian canal may be one of the foremost in value to its owner and in Influence upon the world. SWIMMING OH LAND. DO WE EAT TOO MUCH? Mammoth Project to Connect the Uluck He a with the Baltic. The war with Japan Is rousing Itus nia to the execution of a great public work long planned and long neglected that Is, the canal which is to connect the Black Sea with the Baltic. At the present moment the need of such a tanal Is obvious. In this one year of itorm and stress it. might well be worth to Kussla more than lis entire cost; for with such a waterway open Unsslar could snap her finger at the prohibition at the Dardanelles. Her Black Sea fleet could make its exit into the Baltic, and thus In; available for ficrvicu in tue far I'.iist, instead or lying Idle In the hour of urgent need. That Kussla did not construct this anal long ago Is doubly strange, first, iccause of the many years that the Dardanelles has been burred against Iier warships, and, second, because of he ease with which it can be made. The total distance from sea to sea I n long one, l.biS miles; but the actual canal will be only sixty-six tulles long, the rest of the way being traversed on the Dnelper and Dwina rivers. These livers .will have, of course, to be deep ened, locks will have to lie constructed and much other work done. But there I no mountain ridge to be crossed, and lio serious engineering problems of any l.lnd appear. The cost Is estimated at !1 xo.ooo.ooo, nn enormous sum. But It ill give Kussla n connection, through icr own territory, between the Black r'eit and the Baltic, making tbe Black Sen nn open sea to her while closed to the rest of the world, and It will eii- Ible her to send tier biggest warships lirougli from Odessa to Itlgii. For the purpose of this wnr such a canal would bo comparable In value nidi the Siberian Itallroad Itself. For geenrnl purposes, In times of pence, It would doubtless prove of great value. Tlv North Sea and Baltic Cannl Is now een to be Invaluable to Germany. The Vegretarians Not Worried Over High Price of Meat. Many scientific investigators of the average diet of civilized people long ago arrived at the conclusion that most people eat too heartily, says the New York Tribune. Professor Chittenden, of New Haven, after his extensive ex- j pertinents In feeding soldiers from the regular army on schedules carefully thought out and regulated, may le able to throw some further light upon tills important everyday subject of dis cussion in families. Heads of house holds lu great numbers, who tind It a difficult bask to meet their bills at the grocery shops and the markets, may discover reason for rejoicing, provided it Is made Indisputably plain that peo ple are really eating too much. It Is to be hoped that among the men of leading and of light In this department of science something like an agreement of opinion may be obtained. How far should the cravings of healthy, lively children, who get plenty of opportunities for playing in the open air, be gratified? The food of the British soldiers in South Africa proved 1hat a moderate allotment of Jam as a touch of sweetening to the rations cheered the spirits of the soldier and made him fight harder than if he had been an absolute stranger to such an Indulgence. In the struggle In the East the commissariat bus not been overboiintiful to the rifle bearers on either side. The Japanese soldiers live chefly on rice and dried tisli. The Rus sian Infantry and cavalry demand a more liberal diet. Moderation in eating ought to result in cutting down the extremely high prices of meat and fisli which are now current in our principal cities. People who take only one or two meals each day and there are many of them and the devotees of the exclusive con sumption of vegetable food feel a cer tain sentiment of compassion for the devourers of big repasts three times a day, and are not greatly . worried over the high prices of fleshly luxiries. An Oriental Stratagem. Many a man has failed to guess an easy riddle because the simple solu tion looked like a trap to him. V. C. records an Instance In which this trait of human nature was cleverly played upon by a Japanese nobleman. The old lord had been forced to flee with only three hundred men before an enemy with ten thousand, and barely had time to reach his castle ahead of his foes. There were no re-enforcements near at hand, and he knew that If an attempt was made to storm his defenses he and his men would be dead before help could come. The enemy's forces advanced rapid ly, and scouts rode up near the castle to recounoiter. To their amazement they found tbe gates, doors and win dows open, and all the appearance of a holiday celebration. They rode has tily back to Inform their master that the foe was dancing, and that bands were playing music In the castle. The powerful enemy was too wise a man to put his head into any such a trap as that. The defenders of the castle must have some plan to slaugh ter his forces by wholesale, or they would never invite him in that way. He drew back a safe distance, and en camped to await developments. Soon the re-enforcements for the castle came tip behind, attacked him suddenly nnd defeated him, while the garrison which had risked nil on its stnitegem charged him on the other side. Tender and True. Squire llenson was often consulted in cases of family difficulty resulting from the storm nnd stress of time or temper, and he derived a good deal of amusement from the talcs told in his little office. . "Is it true thnt you threw something at Mike that caused the swelling over his eye?" the squire asked a little wiry Irishwoman who npeared sobbing at his door one day half an hour after her husband had departed. "Vis, I did," said the little woman, catching her breath, "but 1 nlver wlnt to hurt him, and he knows It well. We'd Just come home from the cou sin's wedding, nn' I was feeling kind of soft to Mike, and I axed him If ho loved me as much as he did the day we was married1, nnd nnd he was so slow answering me that I up wid the mop an' flung It at id in. Squire Ben son; for If we poor women don't have love our hearts just breaks Inside of us!" Eminently Qualified. "I was rather surprised to hear that he had Imught an automobile." "Why?" "Why. be a great walker, you know, nnd he's very fond of that sort of exercise." "Of course, so, you see, he won't mind It." Philadelphia Press. Some ten years age a wei known German doctor named Both startled the educational authorities in Berliu by asserting that the proper way to teach swimming to children was to in struct them In certain movements and exercises in the playgrounds. Dr. Itoth's theory was at first laughed at. The doctor, however, stuck to his guns, and to-day he has the satisfaction of knowing that the state schools of France and Germany have adopted his system. In Ixmdou the school board regards it with great favor, and sev eral schools have included it, with cer tain modifications, in their curriculum. The Ixmdon schools which hava adopted Dr. Hotu'g system have added an Improvement which consists of a curiously constructed desk on which advanced pupils are placed, and are able to counterfeit all the motions anl bring Into play the various muscle used In swimming. The great advan tage of children being taught swim- J.EAR.NINO THE STR.OKK. miiig in this manner is that the timid as well as the daring enjoy equal op portunities. In the ordinary way many children are paralyzed with terror when placed in the water, and it is impossible to instruct them. If they have had a thorough course of instruction In the school gymnasium or the playground, however, they mas ter all the movements, which practice renders in the course of time Instinct ive. Thus when they at last enter th. water they do so wilh conli leu -e. The children nre first of all drilled in the movements of the arms, shoul ders nnd legs. Then they are taught the Hide stroke, and after they have ar rived at fire "iency they undergo a course of Instruction on the patent desk. When the children have thor oughly mastered nil the movements they are taken to swimming baths. Last year 44,:irt children were in structed in "swimming on dry laud." Jt,:i. were taught to swim well, and C.3",1 earned certificates for proficiency. Judging from these figures, it appenrs that in the near future Ixmdoners at all events will become amphibious. EVERYBODY TAKES MATCHES. Hotels Kxpeml a Larue Amount for Free Distribution. "It would be interesting to know how much the hotels of Washington spend each year for matches for free distribution," said a hotel clerk to a Washington Star reporter the other day. "There is no doubt the outlay amounts to a large sum in the course of a year. It is a matter of more than passing interest to watch different men ns they approach the place where tlift matches are kept for the use of the guests of the hotel. Nearly every man w ears a different expression and every man has his own peculiar way of reaching for the matches. It is a rare thing for a man to take simply one match, although he may need only one to light his cigar. But he will take more than one. He will light his cigar or his cigarette and sometimes his pipe and the rest of the matches he will shove down In his pocket. "Matches are cheap enough, of course, but I bet the yearly match bill of this hostelry will reach Into the hundreds of dollars. Taking all tho hotels in Washington, you can read ily see that the total match bill would amount to quite a snug little sum. It is also a rather singular thing that men who smoke with great regularity seldom have matches In their pockets. Men who never smoke do not need matches except to light the gns when they go home after nightfall. What becomes of all the matches, anyway? Men are always asking for matches. Of course, many matches are burned up by men who smoke cigarettes. The cigarette Is the greatest match con sumer in the world. The pipe will probably nin a good second. But matches when put in a public holder become public property nnd any man has a right to fill his pockets If it pleases him to do so. Hotel men make no complaint about 1be matter." Why Johnnie Cried. One cannot eat his cake nnd have it, too; much less can one let the other fellow eat It. The Wellspring ' pre sents the greedy boy lu n new inci dent. "Thomas, what is the matter wKh your brother Johnnie?" asked the mother of the boys. "He's crying." replied Thomas, "be cause I'-ni eating my cake nnd won't give him any." "Is his own cake finished?" "Yes'm; nnd he cried while I was eating thnt, too." During the Honeymoon. Hp one of the first things I must do, my dear, Is to hire your successor at the tyitewrlter. ui,. Vall thoro'a Atie thlncr ivmi must understand. You nre not to pay her any more than half of what you pnhl me. You are altogether too vf, Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. It Isn't the shortcomings of a young man thnt the girl's father objects tc; It's his long stnylngs.